These shocking satellite images from the European Space Agency show how the Arctic summer ice pack has changed in just one year. The left image was taken in August 2005 - the right in August 2006. See the difference?

In both images, pink represents pac... Read more >

Time to kick back with a cold gif, throw a couple of logos on the creative fires, open up a jar of culture jam, turn on the Photoshop and bar-b-cue something for the Green my Apple campaign:

Tom Dowdall had the great idea of offering logo, video ... Read more >

I challenge you to watch this and not smile. Activism with a sense of humanity -- and humour. Sign me up. Read more >

All the Apple users in the Greenpeace office here in Amsterdam are hiding behind the clean lines of their Apple monitors, squirrelling away their iPods, and placing their arms protectively about their iBooks.

But despite the fact we're going head to he... Read more >

Off the coast of Indonesia researchers have found sharks that walk on their fins and shrimp that look like praying mantis, along with a bunch of other new species.

Photos on National Geographic, which goes on to say:

Scientists have clocked the shrimps'... Read more >

Interesting news. When Richard Branson gets something into his head, he usually goes with it. From the BBC: Read more >

The Virgin boss said he would commit all profits from his travel firms, such as airline Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains, over the next 10 year...

Rex Weyler writes: "[September 15th] is the 35th birthday of Greenpeace. Some of the founders have passed on: Irving Stowe, Ben Metcalf, Davie Gibbons, John Cormack, and Bob Hunter. A new generation of environmentalists face challenges that we did n... Read more >

© Greenpeace/Christian Åslund.

I used to enjoy eating cod when it was still sustainable to do so, but that was quite some time ago now. The cod fishing quotas in the Baltic Sea are far higher than what is recommended by scientists. Then add the illegal... Read more >

Here in the UK this week the Guardian newspaper has been trumpeting its exclusive extracts from a new book by George Monbiot, campaigner and columnist extraordinaire. It probably won't rate alongside The Hitler Diaries in terms of literary scoops but ... Read more >

18 August 2006 - A local fisherman stands ankle deep in oil spilled on the beaches near his home. The spill began on August 11 when Solar I, a Petron-chartered single hull vessel carrying 2.1 million litres of oil sank in the Guimaras Strait, about 50... Read more >

Photo by Michelle van Kampen on flickr.com

This is something I spotted while responding to someone on Flickr.com. I noticed that Michelle van Kampen had posted a photo of a dead seabird. When I enquired, she posted a news story about it.

Interestingly,... Read more >

Mahi Sideridou, in our European Unit writes:

The European Union is currently trying to decide on the future of its energy sector. The European Commission is asking for people's opinion on a number of energy issues, so that it can develop new policies.

E... Read more >

Google and the United National Environmental Program have teamed up - and are using Google Earth to show areas of extreme environmental degradation worldwide. Read more >

The UNEP overlay for Google Earth includes successive time-stamped images illustrating 100 a...

The Sunday Times and Friends of the Irish Environment (FOIE) have revealed that the Irish government and the state forestry company, Coillte are sitting on a ticking time bomb. It's been discovered that phosphorous and nitrate silt leaked into an Iris... Read more >

Greenpeace bought five top-brand laptops this summer and asked an independent laboratory to test them for toxic chemicals. The brand-new laptops were taken apart and tested for nasty stuff brominated flame retardants (BFRs), polyvinyl chloride plasti... Read more >